Need a good, inexpensive printer

We are need of a new, inexpensive printer. We have a Mac OS X 10.6.8. We are currently using a Canon MX340. The printer works fine, but there is no option to choose black and white printing...not in Pages, Numbers, or for an internet page. It does everything in color. We had an older printer that did black and white with the Mac, with no problem at all. Because of how many coupons I print though, we eat up the color ink cartridge every month. Other than that, we don't print a lot. We mainly print my coupons, tickets to events, and a few internet pages here and there. I just want to option to print things in black and white. It won't print in grayscale (or whatever the Mac equivalent is). So, we use massive amounts of black and color ink on every page.
I have talked to Apple and Canon. Both say it is the other's issue. Just want to be done with this printer.
Any recommendations for inexpensive printers (less than $100) that you know will give you the option to print in black and white AND choose the type of draft that you want?

You can buy most major brand home use style printers for very little. That's because they know their profit will come in the consumables.
If your usual need is for black and white I would go for a laser printer, and I wouldn't be too retiscent about buying an older laser like an HP 4050n or something similar off eBay. We have this older HP, the cartridges seem to last forever and are really cheap to replace. Our printer tech says "those things are built like a tank".
We also have a new Dell 1250c color laser (actually the newer LED technology). Once again cheap to buy, cartridges run about $70 for each color but do last a long time.
I don't think I'll ever fall into the trap of color inkjets again.
I believe the bottom line is look at the cost of consumables.

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website find nothing for a HP printer that does this;
They do however find other brands that OEM the HP
engine;
I guess its not that important, I was more hoping
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the google road and found nothing, and also nothing
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Newton Mar
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@JamesNewton That's actually the exact method we used. The way around the "network printer" part is to install it as local printer and map it to a TCP/IP port that way. –  Nathan
C Mar
17 at 16:28
You mean in the case where the printers are TCP/IP connected and not local USB / LPT to the users workstation? That makes sense. Wonder if this will work for USB connected printers... –  James
NewtonMar
17 at 16:35
@JamesNewton You'd share the local printer on the client's PC then on the server connect via TCP/IP to it. You'd need static addresses or use DNS names if DHCP, though. –  Nathan
C Mar
17 at 16:51
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